Leadership

Patricia S. Andrews serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Global Head of Oncology. Prior to joining Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Oncology (SDP Oncology), Ms. Andrews spent 7 years at Boston Biomedical, Inc., one of the predecessor companies, and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining Boston Biomedical, Ms. Andrews served as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer at Incyte Corporation, a U.S.-based biopharmaceutical company. In this role, she led the transition from a clinical-stage research and development organization to a successful commercial enterprise with the launch of its first-for-the-company, first-in-class, first-in-disease, orphan oncology product. She established the commercial organization and led all functions within sales and marketing. She was also responsible for business development and completed multiple significant product licensing deals for Incyte, including one of the largest licensing deals in biotech in 2009.

Prior to her experience at Incyte, Ms. Andrews spent 17 years at Pfizer Inc., culminating in her role as Vice President and General Manager of the U.S. Oncology Business Unit, at the time a $900 million portfolio of products in colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and renal cell carcinoma. Ms. Andrews is an Executive Officer of Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. and serves on the board of GlycoMimetics [Nasdaq: GLYC]. Ms. Andrews received her M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a B.A. from Brown University.

Edgar Braendle, M.D., Ph.D. serves as the Chief Medical Officer and Global Head of Development. Prior to joining SDP Oncology, Dr. Braendle spent 3 years at Boston Biomedical, Inc., one of the predecessor companies, and served as Executive Vice President, Head of R&D and Chief Medical Officer.

Dr. Braendle has more than 20 years of industry experience leading clinical development and oncology diagnostics and treatments. Prior to joining Boston Biomedical, he served as President and CEO of ARUP Laboratories, a national clinical and anatomic pathology reference laboratory. Previously, he spent more than a decade at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, culminating in his role as Senior Vice President and Global Head of Companion Diagnostics. In this role, Dr. Braendle led the company’s precision medicine approach, delivering all complementary and companion diagnostics for Novartis Medicines, and driving exploratory biomarker development. In an earlier position as Vice President, Global Head of Oncology Biologics, he developed Novartis oncology biologics in early to late stages, successfully filing 8 investigational new drug applications.

Dr. Braendle received a medical degree and training in hematologic malignancies and solid tumor oncology, pharmacology and urology at the University of Aachen, University of Bonn, and the University of Ulm in Germany.

Dee Mahoney serves as Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, she leads the commercialization of oncology assets originating from the company. In addition to commercialization, Ms. Mahoney plays a leadership role in new product planning and external innovation for oncology across all regions.

Ms. Mahoney’s 30 years of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry focused on roles ranging from field sales to executive leadership. Prior to joining the company, she was co-founder and President of DMH BioPharm Advisors, a management-consulting firm. In this role, Ms. Mahoney partnered with biopharmaceutical companies to maximize the effectiveness of commercial strategies and reduce the risk of regulatory noncompliance.

Before that, Ms. Mahoney spent 20 years at Pfizer Inc., culminating in the role of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Pfizer’s U.S. Specialty Products Business Unit, where she was responsible for the $2.5 billion specialty business unit comprised of oncology, anti-infective, HIV, ophthalmology, and endocrine-care products.

Ms. Mahoney received her Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and Organic Chemistry from Stephen F. Austin State University.